Director, Affleck spat: ‘Shut the f*** up’

A revealing audio clip of star Ben Affleck from the DVD commentary of the 1998 summer season blockbuster has gone viral, prefer it does occasionally, and listeners are once more shocked by the actor’s frank admissions, studies the New York Publish.

On the monitor, Affleck says fiery director Michael Bay informed him to “shut the f**k up” when he began asking too many questions on the catastrophe movie’s implausible plot.

“I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the f**k up,” mentioned Affleck, who was simply 25 years outdated when Armageddon hit theatres.

“’You know, Ben, just shut up, OK? You know, this is a real plan,’” Affleck, now 51, recalled Bay saying. “I was like, ‘You mean it’s a real plan at NASA to train oil drillers?’ And he was like, ‘Just shut your mouth!’”

In Armageddon, a Texas-size asteroid is hurtling towards earth and the US authorities decides to ship a deep-core oil driller, performed by Bruce Willis, and his blue-collar workers into house to put in a bomb to blow it to smithereens.

Notably, the screenplay was an early-career effort from J.J. Abrams, who would go on to direct Star Wars: The Pressure Awakens 17 years later.

Most critics shared Affleck’s scepticism. Roger Ebert, in his one-star Chicago Solar-Occasions evaluate, mentioned, “The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense and the human desire to be entertained.”

The Publish’s Rod Dreher, nonetheless, disagreed, giving the film a full 4 stars and calling it “a barrelling, badass testosto-fest.”

“Armageddon” actually struck a chord with destruction-hungry audiences, incomes $533 million worldwide on its strategy to changing into the highest-grossing film of the yr.

This text initially appeared within the New York Publish and was reproduced with permission.